What Obama Should Tell Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg and Other Tech Executives

Obama is slated to meet with tech executives today in California, part of the president’s efforts to burnish his pro-business and job creation agenda. So what should the Leader of the Free World discuss with the Leaders of the Geek World, including Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix boss Reed Hastings and Eric Schmidt, the still-CEO-but-not-much-longer of Google?

UPDATE: Tech exports and research spending were on the agenda at Thursday night’s dinner, Jared Favole reports.

This is supposed to be a serious sit down about the U.S. economy, “innovation,” clean energy and job creation. Later, Obama will tour an Intel semiconductor plant in Oregon. The White House-meets-tech dinner will be hush-hush, but Deal Journal is cooking up some discussion points Obama may want to raise.

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